jason sheehan cooking dirty a story of life sex love and death in the kitchen thegritandgloryofres tau rant life as told by a survivor of kitchens across america c ooking dirty is a rollicking account of life on the line in the restaurants far from culinary school cable tv and the jasonsheehan the food writer for westword won a james beard award in 2003 his essay there s no such thing as too much barbecue was reprinted in this i believe his work has appeared in best american food writing for the past five years michelin guide where most of us eat out most of the time it takes the kitchen memoir to a rough and reckless place from his first job scraping trays at a pizzeria at age fifteen jason sheehan worked on the line at all kinds of restaurants a french colonial and an all-night diner a crab shack just off the interstate and a fusion restaurant in a former hair salon restaurant work as he describes it in exuberant sparkling prose is a way of life in which your whole universe

michael collins carrying the fire an astronaut s journeys fortieth anniversary edition new preface by the author foreword by charles a lindbergh reissued with a new preface by the author on the fortieth anniversary of the apollo 11 journey to the moon t he years that have passed since neil armstrong buzz aldrin and michael collins piloted the apollo 11 spacecraft to the michaelcollins flew in both the gemini 10 and apollo 11 space missions in the 1960s he lives in south florida moon in july 1969 have done nothing to alter the fundamental wonder of the event man reaching the moon remains one of the great events technical and spiritual of our lifetime in this remarkable book michael collins conveys in a very personal way the drama beauty and humor of that adventure he also traces his development from his first flight experiences in the air force through his days as a test pilot to his apollo 11 space walk presenting an evocative picture of the joys of flight as well as a new perspective

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